Feature
Story:
It
all started with
"Star
Maker" . . . filmed in 1968 in Berlin,
starring - Wendell Corey; Barbara
Valentin; Rolf Eden and
Troy
Cory - Contributed by
ABCNEWS.com
By Mike Lee and Donna Jeffries of
TVInews Hollywood
Beat.
•••
B E R L I N, Germany, Dec. 2, 2003 -- Rolf
Eden, a Berlin property tycoon, star of
the 1968, "Star
Maker",
former nightclub owner, and all-purpose
celebrity, says he is offering $125,000 to
any woman, from anywhere in the world "My
real desire is to die on a lady, while
making love," Eden said. "A lawyer has my
will, and in my will I have $125,000 for
this lady." Wendell
Corey,
died in November, 1968, a few weeks after
his scenes in Berlin for "Star
Maker"
were completed. Barbara
Valentin;
Rolf
Eden
and Troy
Cory
-- were also featured in the Berlin
film.
•••
Eden is known by many as the "Hugh Hefner"
of Germany. He doesn't publish a magazine,
but he is a wealthy playboy.
•••
He's also of a certain generation, 72
years of age, and of a certain philosophy,
not necessarily shared by his hero in a
Los Angeles mansion, that would not even
get him past the parking lot in a major
corporation. But that doesn't seen to
bother Rolf Eden in the slightest.
•••
He is about as politically incorrect as a
man can be these days. On the thorny
modern dilemma of whether a man should buy
dinner on the first date, Eden brushes
such a "small issue." He is not only going
to pay for dinner, he is going to offer to
pay for a lot more, if the woman is "nice"
to him.
•••
"I've never paid [a woman] for
making love, but I spent it on them. If
they need a new nose, or a new breast, or
they want to go to school, or go to
university," he said.
•••
This self-proclaimed "Daddy Bigbucks"
figures that offering a $125,000 bounty
(actually 125,000 euros, which is almost
the same amount) is well worth it.
•••
Applicants Must Be Young, Attractive
and Healthy
•••
Eden says that even at age 72 he is fit as
a fiddle, and ready for love. He claims he
will pay for an unspecified number of
women to fly to Berlin from various parts
of the world, for a couple of days of
sexual activity, providing they fit his
criteria.
•••
Basically that seems to mean they must be
young, attractive, healthy, and with a
practical outlook on life. "If a lady will
come here, she really has to work hard,"
he said.
•••
But doesn't it trouble him to know that a
woman with whom he is making love, is
actually trying to kill him with
passion?
•••
"Of course they are," he conceded. "I
don't care why they make love to me, who
cares, as long as I have my fun all the
time. Just for killing a man while doing
love, that's a good beautiful thing to
do."
•••
"But," he cautioned, "it has to be
natural, not if she puts a knife in me, or
puts some poison or something. The doctors
and the police will find out."
•••
And how will the lawyers know who might
deserve the reward, after he is dead? Eden
says he keeps a careful diary of all his
"dates."
•••
As for the obvious objections which
women's right groups would have, Eden is
unrepentant. "If they're outraged, the
leader, if she's young and beautiful, she
should come here and I'll change her mind
very fast."
•••
Eden is well known as, and acknowledges
himself to be, a self-publicist. He
surrounds himself with young women when in
public. He is coy as to whether the ladies
on his arms are actually his sexual
partners.
•••
He has struck a rich vein of worldwide
attention with his public challenge to be
loved to death.
Well, it's
official -- Tom Cruise is set to star in
the "War of the Worlds" remake and
shooting will begin in November… and
you heard it here first, many, many months
ago! Larry and I have not only been
covering the progress of this project but
we also covered the special 50th
Anniversary Gala and screening of the
original sci-fi classic that took place at
The Vista Theatre on November 25, 2003 --
the exact date that the film originally
premiered. Beverly
Hills' best kept secret is Sandra Piller
and Larry
Flynt's Supper Cabaret
Club.
-----
On
Wednesday nights you can catch gorgeous
actress and dancer Sandra Giles. She used
to cruise around Hollywood and Beverly
Hills in her pink '57 T-Bird with the pink
mink interior, and now the Eternal
Starlet, gorgeous, Sandra can be seen at
Larry Flynt's Supper Cabaret Club.
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Sandra,
who was the star of many hit musical films
of the 50's and '60's, not only got to
party with Sammy Davis Jr. and James Dean,
but she also dated Frank Sinatra, Omar
Shariff, Michael Caine, Trini Lopez, David
Janssen, and Elvis Presley! Yes, Sandra
knew how to have a good time and she's
still partying! Sandra can also be seen at
the Marina City Club in Marina del Rey on
Friday, Sept. 3 at 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Sandra's party promises to have plenty of
dancing and lots of great music.
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West
& East Coast Swing, along with Salsa,
Disco, the Hustle and much more will keep
the crowd grooving all night.
Complimentary dance lessons will be
conducted by Leba. Music will be provided
by D.J. Ceasar.
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Some
of the western personalities that have
passed away since the last Golden Boot
Awards were also honored at this years'
event. They included Charles Bronson, Jack
Elam, Ronald Reagan and Les Tremayne (who
also starred in "War of the Worlds"). In
the early 1980s, veteran movie sidekick
Pat Buttram first conceived the Golden
Boot Award as a way to recognize the
achievements of cowboy film heroes and
heroines, as well as writers, directors,
stunt people and character actors who had
significant involvement in film and TV
westerns.
Proceeds
from the Golden Boot Awards
benefitthe
health and human services, retirement and
child care programs of the Motion Picture
& Television Fund in Woodland Hills,
California.
-----Just
because we like him so much we are going
to add this quick quote from George Lucas
regarding his popular "Star Wars" films
(which Donna doesn't like by the way) --
Lucas says, "Popcorn pictures have always
ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is
the public so stupid? That's not my
fault."
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